Evidence of Sopron’s Jewish past can be seen at the crumbling synagogue east of the Inner Town, boarded up and falling into disrepair. A plaque tells passers-by that ‘1640 martyrs’ were taken from here to Auschwitz on 5 July 1944. A Holocaust memorial across the street, erected with much political chest-beating in 2004, features sculptures of jackets with the Star of David and a pile of shoes, which represent Auschwitz remains.
